Evolution of Dotticultute 



pies, the savory and flowering herbs,- 

 and these too upon land unfitted for 

 other purposes, thus showing to his 

 countrymen how much happiness could 

 be derived from humble source. 



" 'T is great pity the haste, which Vir- 

 gil seems here to have been in, should have 

 hindered him from entering farther into 

 the account or instructions of gardening, 

 which he said he could have given, and 

 which he seems to have esteemed and 

 loved, by that admirable picture of that 

 old man's felicity, which he draws, like so 

 great a master, with one stroke of a pen- 

 cil, in those four words : Regum tzquabat 

 opes animis. That in the midst of those 

 small possessions, upon a few acres of 

 barren ground, yet he equalled all the 

 wealth and opulence of kings, in the 

 ease, content, and freedom of his mind.' 1 



At the invasion of Britain by the 

 Romans, it has been stated that the in- 

 habitants of that country, depending 

 chiefly upon the chase and the herds 

 which they raised, cultivated no cereals. 

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